Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
First hike: ✔️ And what a great one it was. Perfect for the first hike of RTXXII. We’ve always made room in our spring schedule to get some hiking training in. We were too busy this spring with each weekend filled with previous commitments or covid. Yep, we all got it. We had done such […]
Read More Day 3: San Juan National ForestWe clawed, we chained. . . We jumped. . . I never hit so hard. . . I just walked away. . . came in like a wrecking ball. Miley Cyrus Today felt a whole lot like a road trip way in some ways. Primarilly because we did our first hike of the summer! Our […]
Read More Wrecking BallI legit have zero ideas on how to start this post. I have not written anything except for 2 essays this entire year so my creative direction is lacking a little bit. Hopefully the posts get better as our summer goes on. The past few weeks I’ve spend 90% hanging out with my friends qnd […]
Read More Flying to COIt was a Mancos (and Dolores) kind of day. Each night we write in a journal about the day. Tonight I mentioned that it was kind of a boring day and was met with stares of bewilderment. I didn’t mean it in a negative way, we just didn’t do anything too adventurous, or, I’m assuming, […]
Read More Day 2: MancosSo much joy and laughter Wait to meet us there Stay close to me sweet hummingbird Tyler Burkum First full day with the fam! It started off quietly, on my own in fact, with a cup of coffee in one hand and a crochet hook in the other. I was sitting on the deck working […]
Read More HummingbirdToday was quite a full day! We started with going to ABC for breakfast and I switched up from my favorite veggie frittata to pancakes which were quite good. We did a little wandering around Mancos and my dad even got a library card! I’ve recently been really into reading and I am working my […]
Read More Chilling in MancosFinally! The summer has officially started. I’m not going to pretend I wasn’t bitter that Zak got a two week plus head start on the summer adventure. It wasn’t easy being home, dealing with all the kid stuff and end of the year school stuff. It would have been a bit easier if we hadn’t […]
Read More Day 1: Chicago to MancosHave you ever been staring up at the starlight Getting pretty close to midnight Sounds just like the wind singing your name. Drew Holcomb It’s in bars just like the one I’m sitting in now where many of the great songs are written. Jimmy Buffet’s “Incommunicado” or my own “Sitting at a Bar in Leadville”. […]
Read More Feels Like HomeYou don’t know what it means to win Come down and see me again Fleetwood Mac Alright, I admit it, writing every morning didn’t work great either. In my defense though, there hasn’t been a lot to write about. That isn’t to say I haven’t been busy, quite the opposite. It’s just that I haven’t […]
Read More Never Going Back AgainSlow ride, take it easy Foghat I have a new blogging strategy – to write in the mornings while my brain is fresh rather than at the end of the day when it is reluctant to do much of anything. Who know how well it will take, but it’s worth a try. Yesterday after writing […]
Read More Slow Ride